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Terry Bramall and family £450m
2016
Position: 10 £450m
Doncaster construction company Keepmoat was founded by Terry Bramall’s father, and picked up local authority contracts building council houses. Harrogate-based Terry – who is High Sheriff
of Yorkshire – joined the business in 1968 a er graduating in civil engineering, and developed it into one of the UK’s leading regeneration and social housing specialists.
He and his family had a 73 per cent stake in Keepmoat when it was sold to its management for £783m in 2007, with the family making £563m.
Shortly a er exiting Keepmoat he was back in construction with Harrogate property developer 4Urban, where he took over as chairman. One
of 4Urban’s major projects was a £5m retail and residential development in Bingley town centre.
Mr Bramall’s first foray into property was as a director of the building company founded in Wath in the 1930s by his father George and Dick Ogden as Bramall and Ogden Ltd.
In the 1970s the company moved to a new headquarters in Mexborough. A new business – Chantry Furniture – specialising in church
furniture was set up at this time as well as Chevron Homes. In the 1980s Frank Haslam Milan was acquired and Keepmoat was established as a holding company.
Mr Bramall is a director of Doncaster Rovers, who play at the Keepmoat Stadium. Having been a staunch supporter of the club, he joined the board in 2006 and became a controlling shareholder the following year with fellow Keepmoat director Dick Watson.
The 74-year-old gives much of his money to charity and good causes and has put close to £100m into the Liz and Terry Bramall Foundation which supports urban or rural regeneration, social deprivation, and arts and educational causes. It has also supported the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Opera North, the Phoenix Dance Theatre and Northern Ballet.
Mr Bramall, who enjoys golf and playing the church organ, is also involved with the Prince’s Trust and received the Prince of Wales Medal for Arts Philanthropy in 2014. He received a CBE in 2013 for services to charity.
FIRM FOUNDATION: Harrogate-based Terry Bramall, who is the High Sheriff of Yorkshire, with his wife Liz.
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Roderick Evans and family £400m
2016
Position: 15 £375m
Roderick Evans runs the Leeds-based Evans Property Group of companies – a family-run development group with net assets close to £400m.
The business has an extensive portfolio of investment properties and a substantial land bank, as well as interests in property joint ventures and projects in both the private and public sectors.
Roderick Evans, 55 is managing director of
the business which was floated on the Stock Exchange, but then taken private again in 1999 in a £164m deal. The thriving group has a property development pipeline worth well over £1bn. It previously sold investments worth £600m to Reit Asset Management.
Its wide-ranging investment portfolio includes the White Rose shopping centre in Leeds, in which it has a 25 per cent interest, Capitol House and Minerva in Leeds, 1 Park Row in Leeds, Riverside House in Rotherham, student accommodation
at Constantine College, Goddricke College and Langwith College in York, Temple Green in Leeds, Tesco Ferrymuir in Edinburgh and Dakota Hotels in Scotland and the North of England.
Based in Beeston, the company is involved in a £25m programme to transform the Bond Court area of Leeds city centre, including a 95-bed Dakota hotel. Its commercial and industrial interests include Gateway 45 in Leeds and Fradley Park in Staffordshire.
The Evans Property Group was founded by Roderick Evans’s grandfather Fred Evans shortly a er the First World War, initially as a transport firm before moving into real estate. It is now one of the largest property developers in the UK. In 2000 Evans Easyspace was formed, providing business centres and self storage. Companies under the group umbrella include Springfield Developments, Eurocentral Hotels and Citygate Developments,
Evans also owns two holiday cabin sites in Sherwood Forest and the Forest of Dean, operated by Forest Holidays, in which the group has invested £40m.
Roderick’s father, Monaco-based Michael owns the superyacht, White Rose of Drachs. The 2004-built yacht’s name, Drachs is an acronym fromed from Evans family members.
FAMILY FIRM: Roderick Evans, head of the Evans Property Group.
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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 28 2017 THE YORKSHIRE POST 11
BRUCE ROLLINSON JAMES HARDISTY